Line Manager title: Regional Director, East and Central Africa
Grade: Job Group 4
Direct reports: Programme Manager, Uganda Country Programme
Programme Manager, OSBPs and Logistics Infrastructure
Department: Uganda & South Sudan Country Programmes
Location: Kampala, Uganda
JOB SUMMARY
1. The Country Director (CD) leads the country programmes with overall responsibility for delivering quality and results of these portfolios, in line with TMEA’s Strategy and Project Cycle Management (PCM) Guidelines. S/he manages and maintains strategic relationships with Governments, the private sector, civil society, and the donor communities.
2. In addition, the CD is responsible for managing the country teams to ensure good design and delivery of the programmes, and ensuring best practice is followed with TMEA corporate guidelines, procedures, and systems.
3. The CD has overall responsibility for leading the Uganda and South Sudan Country Programmes (UCP & SSCP) and developing, managing, and monitoring strategies and programme delivery. This will include the design, implementation, and delivery of programme activities in infrastructure development, trade facilitation, support to Government institutions and the private sector.
4. S/he will develop and maintain effective programmes in line with TMEA’s strategic plan, results framework and its management information and monitoring systems.
5. The CD will identify opportunities for additional investments into TMEA’s Uganda and South Sudan Programmes through fundraising from donors and other agencies.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategy development and programme delivery
1. Lead the development, implementation and updating of country strategies to ensure alignment with the TMEA Corporate Strategy II and Results Framework;
2. Facilitate the operations of the TMEA National Oversight Committees (NOCs) for UCP & SSCP;
3. Act as Secretary to the Country NOCs composed of TMEA’s key partners which oversee implementation of UCP & SSCP programmes. In this capacity, prepare annual business plans and quarterly progress reports and updates for the NOCs and ensure the smooth operation of these Committees;
4. Work at a strategic portfolio level with the Regional Director – Eastern and Central Africa, Strategic Objective Leaders (SOLs) and Technical Advisors to ensure coherence of the country portfolios and their alignment to national development plans and TMEA’s Theory of Change;
5. Deliver successful projects within UCP & SSCP and ensure portfolio outcomes are in line with TMEA’s Theory of Change and Programme Cycle Management (PCM) guidelines. This includes programme and project level formulation, mobilisation, outcome/output-based planning, reporting and financial management, risk management, results-oriented monitoring, learning and evaluation, procurement, and contract management, and closure;
6. Promote bilateral and regional cooperation by fostering close linkages with other TMEA national and regional programmes for sustainable trade growth, economies of scale and value for money;
7. Develop and maintain detailed TMEA UCP & SSCP annual activity schedules, work plans and expenditure forecasts for each of the output areas of TMEA UCP & SSCP projects;
8. Ensure compliance with grant management procedures and guidelines including appraisal, selection, implementation, reporting and closure;
9. Define terms of reference and oversee the sourcing and procuring of experts to conduct technical assistance, expert missions, feasibility, scoping and design studies and other activities for TMEA UCP & SSCP projects in line with TMEA’s procurement guidelines and procedures;
10. As the budget and risk holder, ensure programme budgets are in line with expenditure forecasts and results targets, as outlined in the results framework and that risks are being effectively managed;
11. Manage assigned matrix teams comprised of Project Leaders (PLs) and Technical Co-ordinators (TCs), and convene regular meetings to ensure effective PCM is taking place in all the projects of the portfolio, particularly in terms of delivery of outputs/outcomes and expenditure against work plans and effective management of risk;
12. Identify opportunities to leverage new investments into TMEA and co-ordinate the scale up of support to trade development in UCP & SSCP;
13. Support Senior Leadership Team in country resource mobilisation, including monitoring donor priorities and drafting concept notes and proposals to realise additional funds from existing and new donors; and
14. Explore new areas for support in line with the TMEA Strategic plan.
Strategic partnerships/relationships
1. Develop and maintain strong working relationships with Uganda, South Sudan, and EAC partners, the TMEA donors, government, private sector, civil society, research organisations and other development partners as well as other relevant projects and initiatives supported by TMEA;
2. Lead on high-level political and diplomatic matters representing TMEA at high level events and act as the primary TMEA interlocutor at all high-level stakeholders in priority projects. Ensure that all TMEA projects have steering committees chaired at a senior level by implementing partners;
3. Liaise with the local donor communities to ensure smooth relationships with the investors and to support additional fund raising from new and existing donors. Together with country colleagues and Senior Management Team, develop proposals for new country projects; and
4. Develop and implement a communications and visibility strategy for UCP & SSCP in liaison with the TMEA Communications Team and ensure good public relations around TMEA projects and TMEA related issues, including case studies and impact stories.
Monitoring, evaluation, learning and reporting
1. Ensure good practice monitoring, evaluation and learning is used throughout the programme cycle from design and throughout implementation;
2. Liaise with the Results team to develop and maintain the UCP & SSCP Results Framework and other monitoring systems for all projects, in line with the TMEA corporate strategy;
3. Oversee preparation of regular project and financial progress reports and provide, as required, updates for the Regional Director – East and Central Africa, SLT, and other TMEA oversight bodies including the NOCs, Board of Directors, and its committees, and the Council;
4. Develop and maintain an accessible database of project and programme information for all UCP & SSCP projects and adhere to best practice in results based PCM;
5. Contribute to the preparation of TMEA annual reports and annual work plans;
6. Oversee and participate in media and communications activities to ensure visibility of TMEA at national levels;
7. Contribute to the development/revision of tools and procedures to document and share knowledge, incentivise staff/teams and enforce compliance and standards, and advice on appropriate response action;
8. Participate in regular informal and formal reflection, knowledge sharing and learning events;
9. Document lessons learned and best practices for knowledge sharing and learning, including in adaptive programming suited to conflict or fragile country environments; and
10. Actively contribute and participate in annual reviews, formative and/or summative project and programme evaluations as required.
Compliance with TMEA Corporate Systems
1. Ensure that all TMEA’s corporate systems and procedures are followed in the country offices including:
2. Establish, mentor and manage the country teams to the highest professional standards;
3. Apply the highest standards of controls and risk management practices and behaviours and embed a
4. positive risk and control culture;
5. Demonstrate prudence, sound judgement and appropriate and timely escalations in management of all
6. types of risk (including political and fraud risk) applicable to the role;
7. Understand and comply with the relevant end-to-end processes including applicable risks and controls;
8. Seek to identify, understand and escalate risk events/incidents/ issues on a timely basis focusing on fixing root-causes and taking ownership of identified mitigating actions;
9. Complete all relevant mandatory trainings within the stipulated timelines;
10. Promote and adhere to TMEA’s core values and ensure compliance with organisational policies and procedures;
11. Maintain zero tolerance to bribery, fraud and corruption, and ensure the immediate reporting of any corruption or suspect behaviour that threatens TMEA’s reputation;
12. Adhere to the safeguarding policies and procedures and immediately report any safeguarding concerns;
13. Act with political impartiality and do not engage with partisan politics and political movements or strongly express statements that are political in nature as they can be misconstrued within the politically charged country contexts; and
14. Any other related responsibilities that may be assigned by the line manager from time to time.
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ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
1. An undergraduate degree or postgraduate degree preferably in Economics, Development Studies, International Trade, Planning, Finance or Management.
2. Qualifications in project planning and management are an added advantage.
Work experience
1. Undergraduate degree holders will have at least 12 years of relevant working experience in programme management (at least 10 years of relevant working experience will be required for postgraduate degree holders).
2. Five years of leadership and management experience.
3. Three years of the working experience should have been gained in Eastern Africa or the other countries in which TMEA operates, primarily in managing economic development co-operation programmes related to regional integration, trade facilitation, trade and investment climate reform, transport sector development, and/or institutional reform.
4. Experience of working with donor agencies such as the Department for International Development (DFID), the European Commission (EC), the World Bank group and/or other development partners is required.
5. Strong programme cycle management skills, proven ability in preparing terms of reference and project documents and monitoring and evaluation skills are essential.
6. The role requires practical experience in project financial and risk management and monitoring and evaluation skills.
Technical skills and behavioural competencies
1. Excellent leadership and people management skills. Demonstrate personal qualities and credibility to lead, develop and motivate staff.
2. Strong strategic thinking, formulation and implementation skills including the ability to communicate strategy and impact concisely and simply.
3. Ability to establish, influence and maintain strong collaborative partnerships/relationships with development partners, high ranking government officials, civil society and private sector organisations.
4. Strong diplomatic skills and knowledge of the political landscapes in Uganda and South Sudan.
5. Fluent (writing, reading, and speaking) in English, with excellent report writing skills and the ability to effectively communicate and articulate key issues clearly and concisely.
6. Excellent presentation, oral and written communication skills, with the ability to influence others to achieve objectives and gain consensus and collaboration.
7. Good understanding of the development sector and key national contexts as relating to regional trade and integration.
8. Strong analytical and advocacy skills.
9. A self-motivated individual with excellent personal effectiveness skills who can work both independently as well as part of a team.
10. Solid programme and financial management skills.
11. Sound decision-making and judgement capabilities, as well as good problem solving and analytical skills.
12. The ability to handle competing priorities and a challenging workload.
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